Missing the grass for the trees

Overprotection of grasslands in India is leading to its decline

Mining woes

Buzz of distress

Thousands of bees are dying in France due to Bayer pesticide

Sikkim tribesfolk oppose proposed hydel projects

Goa's citizenry make themselves heard at a mining public hearing

Chipko: an unfinished mission

In 20 years, Chipko has acquired many facets, primarily as a conservation endeavour by the poor, a struggle for local control of natural …

The great biodiversity vanishing trick

True measure of growth

Opium of the masses

Poppy and coca cultivation is destroying the ecology of central Colombia

BRAZIL

Working Group on Environment releases report in Kerala

Irregularities galore in mining in Bellary

Your gods are mine

Cultural appropriation leads to ecological distress in Odisha

How a restoration project in Karnataka is helping revive ecology, community livelihood

Restoration projects can set in motion a virtuous cycle of livelihoods, biodiversity and native knowledge 

Old ‘Temples of Modern India’: Can India decommission ageing dams it has been warned about?

Dams have affected new ways of land use and life so much that many societies cannot think of a life beyond them anymore

This new tool can drive India’s eco-restoration initiatives; here’s how

The tool helps the user in identifying species that match their restoration objectives

Drying off

Polluted rivers are threatening ecosystems the worldover

Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems

The longer we do nothing about population growth, the worse it gets

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 16, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal

Course correction: Experts point out gaps in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Letter from scientists, ecologists come at a time when it has become evident that China is dragging its feet on locking a decision

Food supply, protection determine denning habits of striped hyenas

Denning behaviour in a species helps to maximise its overall survival fitness in its habitat by securing a foothold place against adverse …

People on Vanuatu’s Malekula Island speak more than 30 indigenous languages. Here’s why we must record them

Vanuatu has been described as the world’s “densest linguistic landscape”, with as many as 145 languages spoken by a population …

Why we studied proverbs to understand emotion among Ghana's Akan people

They contain valuable cultural information that symbolises a specific society’s uniqueness

Did you know Goa has its own shadow dancer?

Dragonflies, which are quite new to science, tell us about the health of our wetlands and ecology

About 70 hydropower projects in Himalayas at risk of quake-triggered landslides

The risk of building dams in the Himalayan region is manifold and that has again being emphasised in a recent study on 2015 Nepal earthquake